New book: Trump and the limits of the American dream

According to our Economists Anton Brender and Florence Pisani, authors of a new book The American Economy: A European View, the United States must change course if it is to arrest economic decline.

The election of Donald Trump revealed the despair felt by a large number of Americans as a result of income stagnation, yet, the book argues, has led to policy departures diametrically opposed to those that are urgently needed. The American Economy: A European View provides a sweeping assessment of more than a century of American economic and political developments, and detailed prescriptions for the shift in political culture that is need if the American dream is to be rescued.